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André Gide

On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir
à perdre de vue, d’abord et longtemps, tout rivage.

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

André Gide, Les faux-​monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters] (1925).

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